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“A PLATONIC PERSUASION IS REQUIRED”: ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD ON THE LAWS OF NATURE

apologetics, philosophy, scienceDan TateFebruary 12, 2020Whitehead, Alfred North Whitehead, Natural Law, physical law, physics, metaphysics, modern science, science, philosophy, Platonism, Plato, Adventures of Ideas, Process and Reality, Emergence, strong emergence, form, forms, Platonic forms, conventionalism, positivism, Kant, Immanuel Kant, Hume, David Hume, Newton, Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematica Principia, Russel, Bertrand Russell, Russell, Bertrand Russel, description, positivist, mathematics, Deism, Deist, imposition, impositional laws, scientific theory, science vs religion, history of science, science versus religion, evolution, Darwin, Darwinism, Christianity and evolution, religion and evolution, new atheism, atheism, atheistComment

ST. MAXIMUS CONFESSOR, VISIONARY OF THE COSMIC CHRIST: A CRASH COURSE

WHAT IS SIN? WHAT PAUL MEANS BY “THE LAW IN MY MEMBERS” (ON CONCUPISCENCE)

CHRISTIANITY AND THE AGE OF THE WORLDVIEW (PART 3 OF 3)

academia, apologetics, Christian experience, Christian freedom, Christian life, church, contemplative, Heidegger, history, Luther, Middle Ages, phenomenology, Reformation, religious studies, theologyDan TateOctober 4, 2019Luther, Martin Luther, Heidegger, Martin Heidegger, Medieval, Middle Ages, worldview, worldviews, world picture, The Age of the World Picture, faith, tradition, gospel, canon, Scripture, Contemplation, Action, Contemplative life, active life, Levinas, Emmanuel Levinas, monergism, will, bound will, bondage of the will, predestination, Paul, salvation, elements, elements of faith, Trinity, Christology, Apostles Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed, Jarslov Pelikan, Pelikan, critical reverance, liberation, Christ, Christiantiy, Christian freedom, Jesus, God, Love, gracious, graciousness, kindness, chruch, church, prayer, presence, ascent, descent, preaching, ChristianComment

CHRISTIANITY AND THE AGE OF THE WORLDVIEW (PART 2)

CHRISTIANITY AND THE AGE OF THE WORLDVIEW

apologetics, academia, Christian experience, Christian freedom, philosophy, theologyDan TateSeptember 21, 2019theology, conservative theology, conservative churches, progressives, progressive theology, progressive churches, philosophy, apologetics, presuppositions, Christian presuppositions, presuppositionalism, Schaeffer, Francis Schaeffer, Van Til, Cornelius Van Til, Kierkegaard, Soren Kierkegaard, frames, framework, experience, Christian experience, secular experience, Western worldview, secular worldview, worldview, worldviews, pluralism, perspectivalism, eschatologically open, house, house frame, existential, existentialism, authentic, authenticity, synthesis, sythesize, sublate, sublation, dialectic, method, methodology, dialectic method, dialectic methodology, despair, sin, paradox, antithesis, antitheses, reason, logic, contradiction, non-contradiction, law of non-contradictionComment

Christianity and Mindfulness: Can They Work Together? Some Insights from Contemplative Prayer

Between the Mountains, A Sermon: A New Interpretation of Psalm 23

Christian experience, Christian freedom, Christian life, church, Jesus of Nazareth, Meditations, SermonsDan TateAugust 5, 2019sermon, psalm, psalms, psalm 23, shepherd, John, Old Testament, New Testament, church, first sermon, Bible, death, shadow of death, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, Lord, The Lord is my shepherd, The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want, I shall not want, mountain, mountains, valley, enemies, thought like a child, when I was a child, Psalm 22, Bulls of Bashan, Paul, My throat is an open tomb, My throat is an open grave, Paradise, Garden, Crucifixion, Calvary, John the Apostle, John the Baptist, Make straight the way of the Lord, Isaiah, Isaiah 40, Every valley shall be exalted, Golgotha, the Place of the Skull, death is undone, sin is undone, oil, anointing, anoint, anointing oil, My cup runs over, My cup runneth over, Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me, First Epistle of John, First Letter of John, Holy Spirit, justification, Declared just, righteous, righteousness, sinner and saint, saint and sinnerComment

ASKING FOR “EVIDENCE” OF GOD? YOU MAY WANT TO LOOK AGAIN AT YOUR QUESTION

academia, philosophy, theology, science, history, apologeticsDan TateJuly 25, 2019apologetics, history, science, scientism, history of science, Galileo, Galileo Galilei, Newton, Isaac Newton, Heidegger, Martin Heidegger, Christian, Christianity, atheism, skepticism, atheist, skeptic, scientific evidence, philosophy, theology, academic, academia, evidence for God, evidence, God, Pisa, Leaning Tower of Pisa, geometry, Einstein, Albert Einstein, Mercury, Perihelion, perihelion of Mercury, Archimedes, mathematics, What Is A Thing?, movement, Ptolemy, astronomy, Copernicus, Ptolemaic astronomy, Copernican astronomy, freefall, free fall, free fall experiment, modern science, Bacon, Francis Bacon, empirical, quantifiable, testable, replicable, utilizable, Euclid, Euclidean space, time, space, spacetime, Whitehead, Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, justice, Capra, Fritjof Capra, Luisi, Pier Luigi Luisi, The Systems View of Life, Hawking, Stephen Hawking, believer, God-believerComment

After Modernity… What?! Part 5: The Church Has an Insularity Problem – And Learning New Philosophy Is a Big Part of the Solution

After Modernity… What?! Part 4: Against Accommodationism: What the Church Fathers Can Teach Us About Engaging the Modern World

church, theology, academia, philosophy, Paleo-OrthodoxyDan TateJune 18, 2019dogmatics, accommodationism, physis, Scriptures, church fathers and mothers, Heraclitus, Christian dogma, Jerusalem, paleo-orthodox, Athens, metaphysics, Christian dogmatics, Maximos the Confessor, church fathers, Nicaea, pagan philosophy, essence, Maximus, Nicene Creed, Acts, oden, Platonism, polemics, Stoics, Phaenomena, Simplicianus, pagan, Zeus, contemporary philosophy, Confessions, hypostatic union, Rudolf Bultmann, Paleo-Orthodoxy, ousia, Origen, Old Testament, Aratus, Maximus the Confessor, Augustine, tradition, philosophy, theology, Charles Hartshorne, What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem, Christ, Thomas C Oden, New Testament, Council of Chalcedon, person of Christ, hypostases, Paul, Aquinas, Maximos, Tertullian, dogma, Plato, Aristotle, nature, Greek metaphysicsComment

ADDICTION IN APPALACHIA, AND GOD’S PROMISE TO A HURTING PEOPLE: A SERMON ON EZEKIEL 36

After Modernity… What?! Part 3: What Does Thomas C. Oden Miss in His Book? On the Spirit of the Fathers and the Importance of Philosophy

Paleo-Orthodoxy, theology, academiaDan TateJune 3, 2019trendiness, Modern Philosophy, conservative theology, Being and Time, thinking, trendy, church needs, Thomas C. Oden, Agenda for Theology, Hartshorne, church fathers, church mothers, Charles Hartshorne, patristic spirituality, methodology, After Modernity... What?!, abuse of nature, future of the church, ordering of nature, Letter Concerning Humanism, modern philosophy, Rudolf Bultmann, technology, tradition, patristic, Martin Heidegger, Heidegger, dogma, Thomas C Oden, modernity, Alfred North Whitehead, Whitehead, Habermas, Paul Tillich, doctors of the church, thought, liberal theology, manipulation of nature, Bultmann, trendiness in theology, Tillich, theology, patristic thought, church fathers and mothers, Paleo-Orthodoxy, The Question Concerning Technology, Oden, orderingComment

After Modernity… What?! Part 2: Are We Really Postmodern – Or Are We Ultramodern?

AFTER MODERNITY... WHAT?! THE PALEO-ORTHODOX AGENDA FOR THEOLOGY 40 YEARS LATER

Dan TateMay 17, 2019Comment

“I DO NOT LIVE, BUT THE MESSIAH LIVES IN ME”: PAUL AND THE MESSIANIC FORM OF FAITH

philosophy of religion, Christian experience, PaulDan TateMay 10, 2019postmodernism, case, word of faith, Word, denotation, pronouncement, marriage, Romans, Martin Luther, Messiah, utterance, pronounce, Austin, postmodern, Giorgio Agamben, deconstruction, being in love, J. L. Austin, Jesus Messiah, the power of God, predicate, Zizek, the word is near you, dogmatics, Benveniste, Commentary on Galatians, gamben, love is without why, union with Christ, mystical union, Paul's Epistle to the Romans, wedding, why, 1535 Commentary, power in weakness, Agamben and religion, romance, pre-conceptual, God, grammar of faith, the word is near to your heart, Agamben and Paul, Christ form of faith, A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans, Jesus, performative utterance, deconstructible, thomas aquinas, Agamben and faith, conceptual, Agamben, Douthat, power, performance, agambe, actuality, Agamben and Christianity, dunamis, weakness, The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans, Badiou, subject, form of faith, theosis, energeia, profession of faith, why love, undeconstructible, first ten words, creedal statements, Christianity, Paul's Letter the the Romans, form, aquinas, The Time That Remains, Pindar, love, Nominal Syntagma, subject-predicate, nominal sentence, Meillet, Christian Grammar, profession, st. thomas aquinas, dogma, Bad Religion, denotative, energea, telos, dynamis, the word is near to your mouth, Grammar, Nominal, potentiality, agmben, SyntagmaComment

WHAT'S IN A NAME?: MEDITATIONS ON "JESUS MESSIAH"

Christian experience, Christian life, Paul, phenomenology, philosophy of religion, theology, religious studies, Biblical studies, Jesus of NazarethDan TateApril 19, 2019Jesus, Name, name of Jesus, heart, bold, forgiveness, the word is near you, the word is near to your mouth, the word is near to your heart, Messiah, Jesus the Messiah, Jesus Messiah, Jesus Christ, Christ, Christos, ancient, ancient Israel, Israel, Richard Bauckham, Jesus: A Very Short Introduction, prophet, the prophet, exodus, Moses, covenant, deeds of power, authoritative, miracle-worker, Reformed, Reformed theology, prophetic office, offices of christ, threefold office of christ, priestly office, kingly office, royal office, Roman, Rome, ancient Rome, Roman oppression, kingdom of God, kingdom, Messianic, revolutionaries, Jewish revolutionaries, zealots, Jewish zealots, Jesus military leader, liberate, liberation, liberation of Israel, oppression, political oppression, spiritual oppression, domination, political domination, spiritual domination, divine authority, the theologically educated, God's right hand, right hand, right hand of God, Mighty One, Messiahship, Paul, Christian lifeComment

FOR HERE TOO GOD IS PRESENT: EXPERIENCE OF THE WEAKNESS OF GOD IN FIRST CORINTHIANS

Christian experience, Christian life, Paul, phenomenology, philosophy of religion, theologyDan TateApril 18, 2019name, Jesus, name of Jesus, trusting in the name, victory, spiritual victory, Christ crucified, stumbling block, foolishness, contemptible nonsense, nonsense, weakness, weakness of God, weakness of Christ, the power of God, the wisdom of God, community, factionalism, arrogance, Corinthians, 1 Corinthians, Corinth, demonstration, demonstration of the Spirit, demonstration of power, imitation of Christ, power in weakness, one sent to die, sent to die, rejected by society, glory, glory in the Lord, glorified in weakness, justification, sanctification, redemption, glorification, communion, communion with God, Sunday School, rote phrases, rote repetition, the humble, the despised, the overlooked, beauty, wonder, significance, eyes to see, ears to hear, hearts to understand, treasure, heart, suffering, death, despondency, disease, destruction, resurrection, participate, participation in God, participation in Christ, Christ and Him crucified, poverty of spirit, reconciliation, the common good, for the common good, Heraclitus, Justin Martyr, Aristotle, HeideggerComment

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